Social Darwinism and the emergence of scientific study of religion : ends and beginnings of theory in religious studies
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Social Darwinism and the emergence of scientific study of religion : ends and beginnings of theory in religious studies
Original language description
Using evolutionary theory to explain cultural phenomena is once again strongly contested. Cognitive Science of Religion maintains that cross-cultural recurrences of religious phenomena might be explained through constraints of cognitive mechanisms of human mind acquired in the process of natural selection. In this fashion the question of origins of religion is being asked and answered again. I will address the differences between contemporary evolutionary perspectives and the evolutionary approaches used in nineteenth century study of religion. Through critical analysis of its premises and lines of argumentation I will also map different usages of today?s evolutionary theory, to what phenomena and to what end they are being applied.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0048" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0048: Laboratory for Experimental Research of Religion</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů